• Swann
    Autographs
    November 6, 2025
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 93: Autograph album containing 29 autograph letters signed by each president from Washington to Coolidge, 1785-1945.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 166: Franz Schubert, Autograph Musical Manuscript, fragment from Die Taucher, 1813.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 111: Thomas Jefferson, holograph plat drawing: map of field near Monticello, 1790s.
    Swann
    Autographs
    November 6, 2025
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 208: George Sand, Autograph Manuscript Signed, draft of her one-act play, Francia, ca. 1872.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 218: Walt Whitman, Manuscript Signed, draft of three complete poems from Leaves of Grass, 1891.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 8: James Dean, Photograph Signed and Inscribed, still from Giant, 1955.
    Swann
    Autographs
    November 6, 2025
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 20: John Lennon, Typescript Signed, interview discussing Paul, Linda, and Yoko, 1971.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 215: Mark Twain, engraved portrait Signed, "Mark Twain / SL. Clemens," 1890s.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 81: Vaslav Nijinsky, reproduction of an artwork by Léon Bakst Inscribed and Signed, 1916.
    Swann
    Autographs
    November 6, 2025
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 73: Malcolm X, The Harvard Crimson Signed and Inscribed: his street address and phone number, 1961.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 11: Lou Gehrig, Photograph Signed and Inscribed, ca. 1939.
    Swann, Nov. 6: Lot 153: George Gershwin, Photograph Signed and Inscribed, portrait by Renato Toppo.
  • Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Presentation Copy of a Whitman "Holy Grail." Whitman, Walt. $10,000-$15,000.
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Endymion in Original Boards. Keats, John. $8,000-
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Association Copy of the Privately Printed Edition of The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Potter, Beatrix. $8,000-$12,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Christina Rossetti's Own Copy of Her First Book. Rossetti, Christina G. $8,000-$12,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: The Borden Copy of The Life of Merlin in an Elaborate Binding by Riviere. Heywood, Thomas, Translator. $6,000-$8,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Arion Press. Whitman, Walt, Leaves of Grass. $4,000-$6,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Call It Sleep in the First State Jacket. Roth, Henry. $2,000-$3,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Steinbeck's Best-Known Work. Steinbeck, John. $2,000-$3,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: A Fine Jewelled Binding Signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Sangorski, Francis. $40,000-$60,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter: A Complete Set of First Editions. Potter, Beatrix. $2,000-$3,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Kelmscott Shelley. Shelley, Percy Bysshe. The Poetical Works. $3,000-$5,000
    Bonhams, Nov. 3-13: Inscribed by Martin Luther King Jr. King, Martin Luther, Jr. $3,000-$5,000
  • Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 75. The Second Printed Map of the North American Continent - Full Contemporary Color (1593) Est. $35,000 - $40,000
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 37. Schedel's Ancient World Map with Fantastic Humanoid Creatures (1493) Est. $16,000 - $18,000
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 104. Important Revolutionary War Plan of Battle of Quebec in Contemporary Color (1776) Est. $4,000 - $4,750
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 43. Mercator's Map of the North Pole - the First Printed Map Devoted to the Arctic (1606) Est. $2,750 - $3,500
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 237. Rare and Striking Bird's-Eye View of Lawrence, Kansas (1880) Est. $2,000 - $2,500
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 10. Rare Map from Atlas Maior with Representations of the Seasons in Contemporary Color (1662) Est. $14,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 374. Bunting's Map of Europe Depicted as the Queen of the World (1589) Est. $2,000 - $2,400
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 590. Willem Blaeu's Magnificent Carte-a-Figures Map of Asia (1634) Est. $2,750 - $3,500
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 647. The Earliest and Most Decorative Map of the East Coast of Africa (1596) Est. $3,000 - $3,750
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 710. Ruscelli's Complete, Third Edition Atlas with 65 Maps (1574) Est. $9,500 - $11,000
    Old World Auctions (Nov 12):
    Lot 696. Superb Hand-Colored Image of the Adoration of the Shepherds (1502) Est. $800 - $950
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Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
September 10, 2025 - September 10, 2025
Page Size: 224 items in 9 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
51 GALLICO, (Elisha)

[A Commentary on Ecclesiastes], bvr spr qhlt

Venice [1577] GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 325.00
52

[MACHZOR]. A prayer book for the High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur

Sulzbach [c. 1756] GBP 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
53

[THE TORAH OR PENTATEUCH]. The Five Books of Moses

[Amsterdam] [1797] GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 275.00
54 MORPURGO, (Samson)

[The Tree of Knowledge], a philosophical commentary on Jedaiah Bedersi's Behinat ha-'Olam ("The Examination of the World")

Venice [1704] GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 68.75
55 PAPPENHEIM, (Solomon)

[The Curtains of Solomon], Yeri'ot Shelomoh

Dyhernfurth 1784 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
56

[HEBREW BIBLE - PENTATEUCH]. The first Pentateuch produced for the Karaite community

Ortakoy [Turkey] 1833-35 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 4,000.00
57

[COMMENTARY ON THE PENTATEUCH]. Mekor Hayyim

Mantua 1559 GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 300.00
58

[MIDRASH RABBAH]

Sulzbach [1755] GBP 70.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
59

GERSONIDES/RALBAG. [Levi ben Gershon]. Perush al ha-Torah [philosophical commentary on the Pentateuch]

Venice 1547 GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,062.50
60

[SIFRA]. A Midrash halakha on Leviticus

Venice 1545 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 812.50
61 SABA, (Abraham)

byvr 'l htvrh [Commentary on the Torah], Tzror HaMor

Venice 1546 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 687.50
62 ABOAB, (Isaac)

Menorat HaMaor [The Lamp of Illumination], a collection of midrashic sermons

Sulzbach 1738-39 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
63 KARO, (Joseph)

Maginei Eretz [Shields of the Earth]

Amsterdam 1732 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 60.00
64

LEVI YITZCHOK OF BERDITCHEV

Salonika [Thessaloniki] c. 1800 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 93.75
65 FALK, (Jacob Joshua)

Pnei Yehoshua

Furth 1824 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 32.50
66 Talmud Bavli

[BABYLONIAN TALMUD]. Massechet Erachin

Basel 1580 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 812.50
67 TEHILLIM [PSALMS]

Sefer Tehillim with the commentary of David Kimhi/Kimchi/Qimhi or RaDaK

[Isny] [1542] GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 425.00
68

TIKUNEI ZOHAR

Livorno 1796 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 131.25
69

The Leningrad Codex: A Facsimile Edition

Michigan & Cambridge 1998 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 106.25
70 LANDAU, (Yechezkel)

Tzion le-Nefesh Chayah - Brachot

Jozefow 1855-56 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 168.75
71 EYBESCHUTZ, (Jonathan)

Ya'arot Devash

Sulzbach 1799 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 35.00
72

[PENTATEUCH]. Chamisha Chumshei Torah

Amsterdam 1768 GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 175.00
73

MACHZOR

Vienna 1825 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 35.00
74 JACOBI, (Friedrich Heinrich)

[PANTHEISM CONTROVERSY]. Ueber die Lehre des Spinoza in Briefen an den Herrn Moses Mendelssohn [On the Teachings of Spinoza in Letters to Moses Mendelssohn]

Breslau 1785 GBP 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
75

[SCHILLER]. Die Philosophischen Briefe von Schiller [The Philosophical Letters of Schiller]

Lemberg 1851 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 50.00
  • Dominic Winter
    Printed Books & Maps, Geology & Charles Darwin
    5th November, 2025
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Darwin (Charles). Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands, 1st edition, 1844. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Rashleigh (Philip). Specimens of British Minerals, 2 parts in 1, 1797 & 1802. £3,000 to £5,000.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Murchison (Roderick Impey). The Silurian System, 1st edition, 1839. £3,000 to £5,000.
    Dominic Winter
    Printed Books & Maps, Geology & Charles Darwin
    5th November, 2025
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Darwin (Charles). The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, 1st edition, 1842. £3,000 to £5,000.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Darwin (Charles). Geological Observations on South America, 1st edition, 1846. £3,000 to £5,000.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Sowerby (James). The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain, 6 volumes, 1812-29. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Dominic Winter
    Printed Books & Maps, Geology & Charles Darwin
    5th November, 2025
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Emerson (William). Cyclomathesis: or an Easy Introduction to ... Mathematics, 10 vols. in 9, 1770. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Robinson (Thomas). New observations on the Natural History of This World of Matter, 1696. £800 to £1,200.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Aquinas (Thomas). [Summa Theologica], Secunda Parte, Venice, 1496. £700 to £1,000.
    Dominic Winter
    Printed Books & Maps, Geology & Charles Darwin
    5th November, 2025
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Parfit (Cliff). Tesuki Washi. Handmade Papers of Japan, 1981-1988. £400 to £600.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Herbert (Thomas). A Relation of some yeares Travaile... Into Afrique and the greater Asia, 1634. £800 to £1,200.
    Dominic Winter, Nov. 5: Lindbergh (Charles A.). The Spirit of St. Louis, 1955, signed. £200 to £300.
  • Doyle, Nov. 5: The Director's copy of the first edition of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, inscribed by Beckett. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: Don McLean's personal test pressing of American Pie before mass production, gifted in 1971. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: The important and extensive archive of original fashion photographs of model Dorothy Rice, 1945-58. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: A Charles Adams theater advertisement. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: A Small Patinated Bronze Bust of Marlene Dietrich. $800 to $1,200.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: Marlene Dietrich Studio Photograph. $100 to $200.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: The very large and uncommon British Quad for Hitchcock's The Birds. $500 to $800.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: An Original Crystal "Sputnik" from the 1966 Met Opera Chandelier. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: The rare poster from the first American performances of Endgame, 1958. $1,000 to $1,500.
    Doyle, Nov. 5: The original Coconut Grove Playhouse poster for Waiting for Godot, possibly unique. $3,000 to $5,000.
  • Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare. The Temple Shakespeare. Housed in Custom Bookcase. $6,365.
    Sotheby’s: Frederick Douglass. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Boston: Anti-Slavery Office, 1845. $14,000.
    Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol. London: William Heinemann, 1915. $2,900.
    Sotheby’s: F. Scott Fitzgerald. First Edition Set, Including This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and others. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1920 – 1941. $24,180.
    Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], John Tenniel. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland First Edition. Macmillan & Co., 1866. $15,000.